Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. ”

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. ”

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. ”

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. ”

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. ”

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. ”

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. ”

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. ”

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. ”

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ”